Learn how to effectively arrange your project views on a sheet, ensuring they line up horizontally and vertically, and making necessary adjustments to their titles. This tutorial will walk you through the process of adding and adjusting views such as level one, level two, the roof plan, and the elevation section, as well as a 3D view.
Key Insights
- The process involves adding and adjusting different project views on a sheet, starting with level one, then level two, the roof plan, and so on. Each view is carefully positioned and aligned horizontally with the others.
- Some views may require additional adjustments, such as deleting the department legend from level two, or adjusting the view title and crop region for the east elevation. These adjustments ensure the views fit well on the sheet and provide a clear visual representation of the project.
- A 3D view is also added towards the end, requiring modification of the crop size to fit appropriately on the sheet. The view title is then adjusted to align with the other view titles, both horizontally and vertically, thereby creating a comprehensive sheet for the final project submission.
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Now that we have our views ready, let's go ahead and jump over to our sheet that we've created. I just went to the Project Browser, you could have also gone through the Tabbed Browsing and found the sheet. But now we're ready to put the views on.
So I'll start with level one, I'm going to put it kind of in this area here, somewhere in there, and then level two, and then the roof plan going across. We'll drop level one up here in the top right corner. And then I'll move it over just a smidge there.
And then I want to adjust my view title. And for this one, I'm going to go over the right here, and then kind of adjust that extent, so that it's sitting in this arrangement. And then I'll bring over level two, do the same thing.
And what I want to do when I place level two, is you see how I'm moving the level around? And it's hitting that midpoint? Well, I want to do that on purpose, because I want them to be lined up. And so right now, what I'm doing is I'm using the directional pad on my keyboard to move it left and right. And then I'll do the same thing with the view title, I'll slide it over.
And then I'll adjust the length of it to match the extents. Now, you'll notice that we do have the department legend pretty close to itself on both of these. So what I'll do here is I'm going to go in, and I'm actually just going to delete it from level two.
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And it'll still give me the color on here, but it won't show the legend. So I'm just going to make a little adjustment to the view title here, kind of move it around a bit. And then just to make sure we have enough room for our roof plan, slide it over.
And then we can add the roof plan. And you can see as I go through, I'm able to line these things up so that everything is lined up horizontally. And then I can do the same thing with the roof plan, kind of adjust the view title.
So the key here is going to be to make sure I left myself enough space down here for my elevation section and 3D view. So I'll do that now. I'll take my east elevation.
And I'll drag that over here. And that's going to go pretty much in this area. And I might have to tighten this up a little bit because it looks like I'm starting to run out of space.
So I'll move these over just a little. And then I can adjust my view title to match. And because I chose to put the east elevation on there, first, it's going to take on number four.
And number four is not exactly what this would be because it'll be, you know, one, two, three, four, five, and then six. So I'm going to go ahead and renumber this one to be number six. And now I've got my east elevation placed.
Here, you can see that the crop region is still visible. So I can use that double-click trick to activate the view. And then I can turn off the crop region, and then just double-click out.
And now I can see, it gives you a better idea of what the view is going to look like. Now, this is cool, because you can see here, the elevation tag has now been filled out. And I can go in and I can start to put in the rest of my views.
So I'm going to slide that over so I have enough space. And so then we'll put the section in. Again, I want to line those up so that they match each other horizontally like that.
See the levels all line up. And then I'll adjust this guy around so that my view titles are also sitting together. And this one, again, will be number five.
So you can see here, my section is now five, because that's the view that we placed on the sheet. Now last one is going to be that 3D view we created. So that's 3D view one under 3D views.
And when I drag that onto the sheet, you can see it's pretty unremarkable in its size. We'll need to go ahead and adjust that one so that it fits a little bit better. To do that, when we double-click to activate the view, if we click on the crop region here, we have the option to do what's called a Size Crop for these.
And so if I adjust the crop of that, I can change the width and height of the view. If I were to change this to be scale to lock the proportions, I can make the width to be a lot larger. We'll start out with, say, 11 inches.
And that might be too big, but we'll see. And hit OK. And it'll increase the size of the view.
And so I can adjust it accordingly. And so I might need to kind of shift these over a bit to get it all fit. Part of that has to do with my section having a little extra room there, but it's OK.
I can adjust those extensions and slide it over. And then I can bring my 3D view in. And this is really a judgment call where you want to put that, but I'd try to keep it kind of lined up.
And same thing here. This is just the crop region. We can turn that off.
And same with our section. We can just double-click in, turn it off, and then double-click out. And the last part here, I'll adjust my view title so that it lines up with them across horizontally.
And it actually happens to line up vertically. And that gives us our sheet that we can use for our final submission.
